Management tips from Sun Tzu's "The Art of War"

Excerpts from a July 1, 2013 Medium.com "blog post":https://medium.com/better-humans/3d01c0cf0a10

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If you plan to read only one book on management, forget all of the recently published bestsellers and read Sun Tzu - The Art of War.

To tease the ones who haven’t read this masterpiece, and motivate the rest to get back to it when in doubt about something, I’ve prepare a few management tips and tricks from the ancient Chinese general
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# The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
# Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
# Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
# All warfare is based on deception.
# Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.
# A leader leads by example, not by force.
# Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
# Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
# When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.
# Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

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